History Manga / Offbeat

* ImagineSpot: Tory has a tendency to daydream about everything from {{Mad Scientist}}s to [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Ninjas]] to a ShowdownAtHighNoon, complete with [[ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou casting his friends and family as characters]].

* RedheadedHero: Tory.

* WhatTheHellHero: Tory gets a succession of these as his obsessive behavior alienates his mother, Paul, and Mandy. He gets better, and then [[spoiler:manages to accidentally bait his LoveInterest into taking a swing at him]]. Go figure.
* YaoiGenre
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''Off*beat'' is an OEL manga by Jen Lee Quick, the first two volumes of which were published in 2005 and 2006 by Creator/{{Tokyopop}}. Despite the efforts of its small but devoted fanbase, the third and final volume is still in limbo. However, Jen posted a notice on her DeviantArt page assuring her followers that ''Off*beat'' would be concluded sometime in 2012.

* CreatorBreakdown[=/=]WritersBlock: Jen Lee Quick went quiet for a long period of time, with no updates to her DeviantArt page or much artistic activity. She recently came back and explained in a post that she had been deeply depressed after the death of her father in 2009.

* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By The Publisher]]/TooGoodToLast: Well, at least until Jen Lee Quick picked up a new publisher for ''Off*beat''.

Currently has a Kickstarter going until the beginning of May 2013 for reprints of volumes 1 and 2 by the new publisher for the series, Chromatic Press, as well as a serialization of volume 3 to begin summer 2013.

Currently has a Kickstarter going until the beginning of May 2013 for reprints of volume 1 and 2 by the new publisher for the series, Chromatic Press.

Currently has a Kickstarter going until the beginning of May for reprints of volume 1 and 2 by the new publisher for the series, Chromatic Press.

* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By The Publisher]]/TooGoodToLast

By the same author, an webcomic named ''[[http://witchsquarry.smackjeeves.com/ Witch's Quarry]]'' was started in 2012, also containing GLBT* themes.

''Off*beat'' is an OEL manga by Jen Lee Quick, the first two volumes of which were published in 2005 and 2006 by [=TokyoPop=]. Despite the efforts of its small but devoted fanbase, the third and final volume is still in limbo. However, Jen posted a notice on her DeviantArt page assuring her followers that ''Off*beat'' would be concluded sometime in 2012.

!!The books provide examples of:

* YaoiGenre

* GreenEyedRedhead: Tory and his mother.

* BoysLove

* WhatTheHellHero: Tory gets a succession of these as his obsessive behavior alienates his mother, Paul, and Mandy. He gets better, and then [[spoiler:manages to accidentally bait his LoveInterest into taking a swing at him]]. Go figure.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Out-of-universe. After the death of her father, Quick had spent much time downloading computer games to cope with her loss. Her computer was subsequently ravaged by a virus, causing her to lose the script, a hundred pages of storyboards, two complete chapters, and three penciled chapters of the final volume of Off*Beat.

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[[caption-width-right:283:Meet your heroes (from right): [[StalkerWithACrush OCD Stalker]] and [[NotGoodWithPeople Extreme Recluse]]]]

Properly written ''Off*beat'', this is an OEL manga by Jen Lee Quick, the first two volumes of which were published in 2005 and 2006 by [=TokyoPop=]. Despite the efforts of its small but devoted fanbase, the third and final volume is still in limbo. However, Jen posted a notice on her DeviantArt page assuring her followers that ''Off*beat'' would be concluded sometime in 2012.

Properly written ''Off*beat'', this is an OEL manga by Jen Lee Quick, the first two volumes of which were published in 2005 and 2006 by [=TokyoPop=]. Despite the efforts of its small but devoted fanbase, the third and final volume is still in limbo. However, recently Jen began posting on her DeviantArt page again and assured her followers that Off*beat would be concluded sometime in 2012.

* ChaoticNeutral: Tory.
--->'''Paul''': So, how'd you find that out?
--->'''Tory''': Raided his guidance counselor's office.
--->'''Paul''': You know that's ''screwed up''.
--->'''Tory''': Your ''point?''

* {{CreatorBreakdown}}/WritersBlock: Jen Lee Quick went quiet for a long period of time, with no updates to her DeviantArt page or much artistic activity. She recently came back and explained in a post that she had been deeply depressed after the death of her father in 2009.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A big, unsubtle one from Chapter Nine [[spoiler is the ending closeup on Colin's backpack. In it is one of Tory's stalker journals from 1st quarter of school.]]

* IllBoy: Colin

Properly written ''Off*beat'', this is an OEL manga by Jen Lee Quick, the first two volumes of which were published in 2005 and 2006 by [=TokyoPop=]. Despite the efforts of its small but devoted fanbase, the third and final volume is still in limbo.

* CreatorBreakdown/WritersBlock: Jen Lee Quick went quiet for a long period of time, with no updates to her DeviantArt page or much artistic activity. She recently came back and explained in a post that she had been deeply depressed after the death of her father in 2009.

* CrashIntoHello: Purposefully invoked by Tory. However, it completely backfires on him.

* StalkerWithACrush: Tory. First he keeps strange notes on the weird neighbor kid. Then he transfers to the weird neighbor kid's school. Then he sets up a study group in his physics class to spend time with the weird neighbor kid. He's aware that he's a creepy stalker, but it's unclear whether he's picked up on the crush part yet.

[[caption-width-right:283:Meet your heroes (from right): [[StalkerWithACrush OCD Stalker]] and Extreme Recluse]]

* LonersAreFreaks: Both the leads fit this. Tory gets a little better. Colin doesn't.

* ImagineSpot: Tory has a tendency to daydream about everything from MadScientists to [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Ninjas]] to a ShowdownAtHighNoon, complete with [[ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou casting his friends and family as characters]].